“When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a...” — Louis V. Gerstner Quote

“When a manufacturing company in Spain looks to IBM for a solution to a problem, they expect us to bring the best of IBM worldwide to it, not just the experience of IBM Spain.”

“The real mechanism for corporate governance is the active involvement of the owners.”

“The value that some analysts put on revenue vs. what they put on profit is out of whack. If you can grow real cash earnings, that's 80% of what you ought to do, and the revenue component is 20%.”

“Americans really expect to interact with our government digitally.”

“People don't expect me to make pop music.”

“In life you cannot expect things to fall into your lap, you have got to work hard.”